1. World War I
The End of an Age

3. The Guns of August
“The Great War”
The War to End All Wars
The War to Make the World Safe for Democracy
“The Stupid War”

4. MAIN Causes of WWI
Militarism
Alliance System
Imperialism
Nationalism

5. Militarism:

7. Alliance System:

8. Imperialism:

11. Nationalism:
Otto Von Bismarck
Giuseppe Garabaldi

12. Alsace-Lorraine

13. “Moroccan Crisis”

14. The Balkans in 1878

15. “The Balkan Crisis”

16. Balkan “Powder Keg”

17. A “Love Story”
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Hunting….
Sophie

18. June 28,1914 14th Wedding Anniversary
Ferdinand and Sophie travel to Sarajevo

19. Gavrilo Princip
“Black Hand” –

20. “Nicky” and “Willy”

21. “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”
Sir Edward Grey (British Foreign Secretary)